Leganto Reading Lists

Reading lists made easy!

Leganto Reading Lists is an interactive, student facing reading list system which enables tutors and administrators to quickly and easily create, and update, reading lists. This information is automatically sent to Library Services where we add new material to our collections, as required. No more recommended reading forms to complete!

Students can access reading lists via VLEs such as Blackboard or the Business School Hub, view all the readings for their courses in one place, create their own collections of useful material and comment and collaborate with other students.

If you need help with Leganto please ASK the Library including the name of your course.

Leganto Reading Lists for staff

This guide will help you get started with Leganto.

Reading Lists Guide

Introduction

Leganto Reading Lists is an interactive, student facing reading list system that allows academics to build lists for students and manage, edit and update them in one place.

Leganto has been integrated with Blackboard course pages, presenting relevant course materials directly in Blackboard and allowing students to click straight through to the Library Search record, journal article or e-book. Leganto enables Library Services to quickly and easily check lists and make sure that items are available for students.

How to access Leganto Reading Lists

Leganto terminology

When you “tag” items in Leganto you should use the following terminology. You don’t need to worry about the number of copies or what format they will be in as our reading list team will do that for you

Core reading – essential to the course, all students will need to use this text

Supplementary reading – supplementary texts, students are encouraged to use these texts

Background reading – additional texts which are suggested for background subject area reading

Books are purchased in accordance with the Library's Collections policy. Library Services will buy multiple copies of an item designated as Core reading. Usually only one copy will be purchased of items designated as supplementary reading. We do not buy copies of items designated as background reading.

Where possible, the library will seek to provide electronic access to specified book chapters in a reading list.

How to build My Collection

Your collection can be a starting point to gather together items you may wish to use to build your reading list/s.

Adding items to My Collection using Library Search

Select My Collection from the options in the left hand navigation panel

Click on the + button on the right hand side

Use the search options to find relevant items from the Library collection of books and articles. Using the Advanced Search option allows you search for title, author or ISBN.

Select the item required and click on the Add button

We advise you to use this option for adding material to your reading list as it provides the most complete reference for your students and allows easy linking to the full text online.

Adding items to My Collection manually

Select My Collection from the options in the left hand navigation panel

Click on the + button on the right hand side

Click on the Create tab

Select the appropriate Type for your item from the pull-down menu

Fill in all relevant fields, using the More item details option as required

Note that any URL should be added to the Source field

Click on Save

Drag and drop or click in the upload box to add files to your item

Be aware of copyright restrictions on material you choose to upload. Contact Library Services if the material requires copyright clearance, or if you have any questions.

Adding items to My Collection using ‘Cite it!’

Cite it! is a tool that pulls across core information about an item from a wide range of academic and popular websites (e.g. Amazon, PubMed, ScienceDirect). If the Library does not have copies of the item you want, use Cite it! to add details to My Collection. If you add the item to a reading list, Library Services will be prompted to obtain a copy of the item.

Click on your name on the top right of the screen and click Cite it!

Drag and drop the Cite it! button to your browser toolbar

Find a relevant item on your chosen website and click on the Cite it! button in your browser toolbar

Add this to my list popup appears containing the details of the item

Select Collection from the Add to options, then click Add & Close to add to your collection, or select List to add the item to a specified reading list

The amount of item information pulled into your Leganto varies depending on the source used. Manual editing to improve the data may be required.

Adding tags to items in My Collection

Organise and filter your collection by adding your own, made up, tags to the items.

Choose an item and click Add Tags to Item

Type in your tag(s)

Click the Save button

Go to the Filter list option on the top left hand side of the screen (denoted by a funnel)

Click onthe tag you wish to filter your collection by

How to build a reading list

Creating a new list

Most departmental reading lists will already be created and available for editing in Leganto. However, it is very quick and easy to create a new reading list from scratch.

To create a new reading list:

Select My Lists from the options in the left hand navigation panel

Click on the New List button in the top right of the screen

Give your reading list a title, ideally this should be the name of the course and add a Description if desired

Click on the Create button

Select a template from the options provided. Templates provide a section structure for your reading list allowing you to divide the list into weekly readings, by topic or type of material. If you select Blank you can create your own sections.

Select Associate List to connect your reading list with a course. Details of courses have already been entered into Leganto - select the correct course by typing a course code or name into the search box when prompted

Check that the dates for the course and the number of participants (students) are correct and click on Confirm. It is important to have accurate participant numbers as this affects the number of copies of books Library Services will purchase for the course.

The course code will now appear in the header for the reading list

Click on the New Section button

Enter a section title and a description, enter Start and End dates if required and click on Create

You can decide to show or hide a section from view by entering Start and End dates in section title box and check the Section visible only during these dates box. If you want to enter dates for information purposes only, leave the box unchecked.

If the course takes place at a campus other than South Kensington, you can add a campus location to your section by clicking on Select Course Location and choosing the required campus(es). This ensures that books will be made available at the nearest campus library.

You can add further sections as required e.g. if you want to create sections for each lecture, topic or type of material. You can also drag and drop sections to change the order in which they appear in the list.

Copying an existing list

You can export an existing list and reload it to create a new list. This is useful if a list from a previous year is unchanged, or only requires minor amendments.

To export an existing list:

Click on the three dots (…) icon for the reading list you wish to copy to open the menu

Select Export and Export to .lgn file

Save the file

Click on Reading Lists in the side navigation and click on the New List button

Select Import .lgn file

Drag and drop or navigate to your saved file and click on Confirm

The new list will have the same name and be associated with the same course as the copied list but will have a status of Draft. The list can be associated with a new course if necessary. The list will consist of the same sections and items, but any notes you added to an item or ‘likes’ from students will not be copied.

Adding items to your reading list

You can add new items to your reading list in two ways:

Add directly into your list

Add from your collection

Adding items directly into your list

To add items directly into your list:

Click on the + button on the right to open the Search panel

Use the search options to find relevant items from the Library collection of books and articles. Using the Advanced Search option allows you to search for title, author or ISBN.

Select the item you want to add from the results list, choose a Section from the drop down menu if desired, and click Add

Continue to add items as required or click the X at the top of the Search box to close it

The selected item/s will now appear in your reading list

Change the designation of the item to Core (essential), Supplementary (students encouraged to use) or BackgroundReading by clicking Select Reading Level. Library Services will ensure that there are enough copies of books available based on the number of students and the category you have selected. The library may also buy an e-book if one is available.

Adding items from your collection

To add items from your collection:

From your reading list click on the + button. Your collection will now appear as one of the options on the right hand side

Hover over item you want to add and click, drag and drop it into your reading list

The selected item/s will now appear in your reading list

Change the designation of the item to Core (essential), Supplementary (students encouraged to use) or BackgroundReading by clicking on Select reading level. Library Services will ensure that there are enough copies of books available based on the number of students and the category you have selected. The library may also buy an e-book if one is available.

To add multiple items from your collection:

To move several items at one time you can use the Bag It function

From your reading list click on the + button. Your collection will now appear as one of the options on the right hand side

Click on the item you wish to add to view additional options and select Add to Bag and Bag It

The status of the item will show as In Bag

To view the items in your Bag click on the Bag icon in very top right corner

To move all the items in your Bag, click on the Bag icon and click in your list where you’d like the items to be inserted

All the items will be added to your list

Change the designation of the item/s to Core (essential), Supplementary (students encouraged to use) or BackgroundReading by clicking Select reading level. Library Services will ensure that there are enough copies of books available based on the number of students and the category you have selected. The library may also buy an e-book if one is available.

Adding notes to items in your reading list

You can add a note to items on your reading list which provide additional information.Public notes can be viewed by anyone with access to the reading list.Private notes can only be viewed by you.

To add a note:

Open the reading list and select the item you want to add a note to

Select Public or Private note as appropriate

Click on Add Note and enter your note text in the box and click on Save

Items with public notes will display the text of the note under the item in list view. The note can also be seen if the item is selected and opened. Private notes can only be viewed by opening the item.

Adding collaborators to a list

If you want to allow other people to be able to edit your reading list you can add them as a Collaborator.

There are two privilege levels available:Manager - can add other collaborators to the list, edit and delete items, or delete the entire list.Editor - can edit the list, but cannot delete the list or add other collaborators.

To add collaborators:

Open the reading list

In the Collaborators panel on the left click on Manage Collaborators

Enter the name or email address of the colleagues you’d like to add as collaborators

Click on Send Invitation. This will send an email to your colleague notifying them that they can now edit this list

By default the privilege level for collaborators will be set to Edit, to change this to Manager click on Manage Collaborators in the Collaborators tab and change the privilege level of your colleagues using the drop-down menu next to their name.

Publishing your list

To make your list visible to students it needs to be published. Unpublished lists will have a status of Draft and can only be viewed by list creators and collaborators.

Publishing a list also sends the list details to Library Services.

Library Services will check your lists to make sure that items are available in the library. If there are issues with any items on the reading list then Library Services reserves the right to make edits or delete items - we will contact you if this is the case.

Lists can be published from the options drop down menu next to each list in My Lists view or from within the reading list.

To publish a reading list:

Go to the options drop-down menu (three dots …) in My Lists or from within the list you wish to publish and select Publish

The list status will change to Published and the status of the items on the list will change from Being Prepared to Sent. Once library staff have checked the item is available the item status will change to Complete

Adding additional items to a published list

If you add additional items to a list once you’ve published it, you must click the Send to Library button.

Editing reading lists

Organising your reading list

Re-ordering sections and items in your reading list

You can change the order in which sections and items appear by individually dragging and dropping them into new parts of the list.

To reorder sections and items in bulk you can use the Bag It function.

Click on the three dots (…) icon for the sections or items you wish to move and choose Bag It.

Click on the part of the list you wish to move the chosen sections or items to, and they will be inserted.

Sections and items must be moved separately.

Adding a note to your section

You can subdivide a section by adding a note to it.

Click on the three dots (…) icon for the section you wish to add a note to.

Click on Add a note

Give your note a title, and add a description if desired

Click on Save

Drag and drop the note into the correct position within the section

Deleting and restoring

Deleting reading lists

Select My Lists on the left hand navigation panel

Hover over the reading list you wish to delete and click on the options drop-down menu

Use the drop-down menu to select Delete

Restoring recently deleted reading lists

Go to the options drop-down menu (denoted by a downwards arrow) in My Lists

Click on Recently Deleted

Click on the three dots (…) icon for the reading list you wish to recover

Click on restore

The restored reading list will have a status of Draft

You can only restore deleted lists for courses which are currently active. If you wish to restore a list for a course which has already ended, please contact your librarian.

Deleting reading list sections

Select one of your lists and open a section

Click on the down arrow next to the + button on the top right hand side

Use the drop-down menu to select Delete section

Deleting items from reading lists

Select one of your lists and open a section

Hover over the item you wish to delete and click on the options drop-down menu

Use the drop-down menu to select Delete item

Changing reading list titles

Select one of your reading lists.

Hover over the reading list title and click on Edit

Change the name of the reading list and click on Save

Exporting reading lists

Select My Lists on the left hand navigation panel

Hover over the reading list you wish to export and click on the options drop-down menu

Use the drop-down menu to select Export and choose an Export option

Exporting reading list sections

Select one of your reading lists and open a section

Click on the section options menu (…)

Use the drop-down menu to select Export and choose an Export option

How to get something digitised for your students

Electronic access to book chapters

Where possible, Library Services will seek to provide electronic access to book chapters in a reading list where:

A book chapter or page range is specified in a book citation’s public note in a reading list

Details of a book chapter or page range are added to a reading list using the Book Chapter item type as described below

To enter details of a book chapter to your list:

Click the + button to open the navigation panel and select the Create tab

From the Type drop-down menu select Book Chapter

In the Chapter Title field enter the chapter number in brackets, followed by the name of the chapter. Enter the name of the chapter author in the Chapter Author field. Enter the book title, book author, edition and chapter number in the appropriate fields. Finally, enter the start and end page of the chapter.

Use the Add to List, or Add to Bag options to insert the book chapter details into the appropriate section of your reading list

Library Services may purchase an e-book, if appropriate, in order to provide electronic access. Alternatively, it will use the College’s CLA HE Licence to make digital chapters from books held in the Library and the British Library.

Not all readings can be supplied electronically because of licence restrictions and other factors.

Should there be a problem, you will be contacted by a member of library staff.

Adding reading lists to a virtual learning environment

When your reading list is ready to be made available to students it will need to be added to the course area in the VLE. This is very easy to do, it is important to make sure that your Reading List has been associated with the right course.

Making reading lists available in BlackBoard Learn

The reading list will be live to students as soon as you add the link to BlackBoard.

Turn on editing in the course

Navigate to the area in the course where you wish to make the reading list available

Select Tools from the edit menu

Select Reading List is an option near the end of the list

In the Tool Information page - add a name (This will display in BlackBoard). There is a description field below if you wish to add more information, this can also be left blank

All other fields have been automatically configured- please do not change these